The Intel® Core™2 Duo processor is Intel's second-generation mobile dual-core processor designed to deliver breakthrough performance and great power savings. With an Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology-based laptop with the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4 MB cache, you can enjoy a greater than 20% performance increase when doing processor-intensive tasks like multitasking compared to previous-generation laptops with Intel® Core™ Duo processors.